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Postanak 31:3

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3 Tada Jahve reče Jakovu: "Vrati se u zemlju svojih otaca, u svoj zavičaj, i ja ću biti s tobom!"

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Arcana Coelestia #4196

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4196. And Jacob called it Galeed. That this signifies its quality on the part of the good of the Divine natural, is evident from the representation of Jacob, as being the Lord’s Divine natural, as frequently shown above. In the Hebrew idiom, or in that of Canaan, whence Jacob came, “Galeed” means “a heap” and “a witness,” or a “witness heap.” What a “witness heap” is in the internal sense, now follows.

  
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